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Welcome to the forum. This is almost a FAQ now.Unless you're in a very special situation, mains gas is roughly a quarter the price of mains electricity. It will still be cheaper to heat your water with gas.Exceptions include households with electricity tariffs with especially cheap off-peak rates, eg. some tariffs intended for EV owners.N. Hampshire, he/him. Octopus Intelligent Go elec & Tracker gas / Vodafone BB / iD mobile. Ripple Kirk Hill Coop member.Ofgem cap table, Ofgem cap explainer. Economy 7 cap explainer. Gas vs E7 vs peak elec heating costs, Best kettle!
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For me the price has changed from electric being 4.8 times the price of gas down to 3.8 times so it still generally falls in the favour of gas. I did an experiment a few years back and found I was using 11 kWh per day heating the water so costing at today's rate around 82p which would power the immersion heater for around 1 hour.
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